The man in charge of the policing operation for the London Olympics has promised to learn the lessons of last summer’s riots in preparing for the Games and will extensively monitor social media for signs of protest and disorder.

Chris Allison, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner and national Olympic security co-ordinator, also revealed that he had successfully appealed to chief constables around the country to postpone cuts to certain key areas until after the Games. He said cuts of about 20% to national policing numbers would not affect his ability to deliver during the Games. Up to 12,000 police will be dedicated to policing on the busiest days of the Games, with about 9,500 of them in the capital.

“The plea I made to chief constables was that in specialist areas – firearms, explosive detector dogs, mounted police – could they phase those reductions after the Games. We will have the skills we need during the Games,” he said in an interview with the Guardian.

Police had their chance. Instead of doing something and taking advantage of social media, VPD missed the action. Over a year later, VPD is struggling to get news, or something. Help is not what they are getting. In the days following the UK Riot, the UK police had posted pictures and the public assisted with the arrest of hundreds of suspects.

Will VPD even get to 100 charges? Not likely. Millions of taxpayers dollars to convict dozens of people. You might as well have given each convicted riot criminal 1Million dollars, to come in, and turn themselves in. It would have been cheaper.

This site identified over 161 individuals. VPD – 30

The efforts currently underway by police in Vancouver, BC provide an excellent example of an investigation leveraging social media to identify those responsible for the Stanley Cup riots in 2011. The IRIT (Integrated Riot Investigation Team), comprised of members of eight different law enforcement agencies, has posted photographs of over 100 suspected rioters on its website, along with a simple electronic means for the public to identify a rioter. The images were compiled by reviewing in excess of 1,600 hours of digital evidence — everything from surveillance video to publicly-accessible online photos and videos. The public was also encouraged to submit additional photo or video evidence that it had access to. As of January 23, 2012 over 30 of the suspects on the IRIT website have been identified.

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